It takes so much energy to show up, to say the thing bravely, and to continue without lying down and taking a break. You got to do that day after day after day after day. I had to give myself a pep talk the other day. I looked at myself in the mirror and was like “Girl, you are just a miracle. You are a miracle. The fact that you are where you are, from where you came from, having withstood what you’ve been through, it is a miracle that you’re here smiling with that clear-ass melanin skin of yours, looking as good as you do, having a happy spirit, raising an incredible daughter, being an
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